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...decisive goal came in the 73rd minute, after Buan took possession of the ball along the left sideline near midfield. Buan ran the ball along the sideline past a defender and took advantage of the space he created to send a pinpoint pass that found Peller just outside the box on the right side. Before Cornell netminder Doug Allen could react, Peller one-timed the ball into the right corner of the net for the game’s only score...
...WORLD No Quick Fix As American and British forces continued a military buildup around Afghanistan, the war against terrorism broadened across several fronts - from high finance and diplomacy to the shadowy world of espionage and psychological warfare. The immediate aim was to pinpoint the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden, Washington's prime suspect in the Sept. 11 attacks. His presumed protectors, Afghanistan's Taliban rulers, played for time by issuing a clerical edict urging the al-Qaeda leader to flee. But their refusal to hand him over, despite last-minute representations by Pakistan, made stronger international action all but inevitable...
...that lead from coast to coast. Agents want to talk to at least 230 witnesses and suspects. The INS has detained more than 100 people on immigration-related charges. As the feds follow a trail the hijackers left behind like a lengthy, disjointed suicide note, they are trying to pinpoint where the terrorists got their money. Were there other hijackers waiting--maybe still planning--to launch more attacks? Who are the masterminds, and are some still alive? Here are some of the FBI's best leads, marked with...
...first problem is finding the right one. That requires sharp intelligence, which can be gleaned from locals and gathered by U.S. spy satellites. The eyes in the sky can pinpoint targets as small as a mailbox...
...NATO allies on ways in which the international community could contribute to the administration of an Afghanistan liberated from the Taliban. While the U.S. is unlikely to tempt the miserable fate that traditionally befalls invaders of Afghanistan, it has other means of influencing the fate of the Taliban, from pinpoint military strikes at its power centers to cutting it off from its only sources of foreign support - Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, both of which have signed up with Washington's campaign - and improving the weaponry and training of the anti-Taliban Northern Alliance, which still controls 5 percent of Afghanistan...